Alongside its regenerative abilities, SCP-4858 possesses a "hypnotic" ability; When consumed in liquid form, SCP-4858 takes over the mind of any who taste it. SCP-4858 is sapient and appears to have an active consciousness, but can only communicate via those it inhabits. At the time of writing, there is no known limit to the number of entities SCP-4858 can possess.
SCP-4858 was recovered from an abandoned IHOP restaurant located in western ███████ (further referred to as Site ███) inhabited by 17 human individuals. The inhabitants of Site ███ appeared to have formed a "cult" around SCP-4858, and became violent upon Foundation arrival. The only civilian survivor of the altercation was James ███████, who became docile after SCP-4858 was removed from a pedestal surrounded by candles. All civilian bodies have been relocated to Containment Cell ███-█.
Recovered from Site ███ were numerous "Paula Deen" cookbooks, as well as a large quantity of butter related paraphernalia items, labeled as "shrines" and "holy items" by the inhabitants. Several fuel canisters and aerospace diagrams were recovered and are currently being analyzed. Site ███ is now quarantined due to trace amounts of SCP-4858-2. At least four personnel units that have tested negative for dietary impulses are to guard it at all times.
Inferred from testimony by James ███████ (see interview 4858-1 below), and artifacts recovered from Site ███, SCP-4858 intends to use its "puppets" to create a rocket capable of extra-terrestrial travel in order to send itself into the sun. It is estimated that if this were allowed to occur, due to the immense heat, SCP-4858 would produce SCP-4858-2 at a rate fast enough to envelop all matter in the known universe within a matter of months. It is pivotal that SCP-4858 be contained and kept in low-heat conditions to prevent this from occurring.
Interviewer: Dr. █████
Interviewed: James ███████, the only survivor from Site ███
Notes: Subject sustained minor head injuries during the altercation at Site ███. It is unclear whether his speech patterns are natural, an effect of trauma, or a side effect of exposure to SCP-4858. Lapses in speech and memory are to be noted and analyzed thoroughly for signs of SCP-4858's hypnosis.
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. █████: I'm Dr. █████. Please state your name for the recording.
James ███████: I'm… uhh… James.
Dr. █████: Last name too, please.
James ███████: Oh. Oh. Gotcha, sorry that's… heh… heh… that's my bad. I'm not too… uh… too used to being formal, y'know.
Dr. █████: Last name. Please.
James ███████: Right! Right, right! Sorry! It's uhh… ███████. I'm James ███████.
Dr. █████: Mr. ███████, do you remember why you're here?
James ███████: …Cause we was goin' crazy at the IHOP…
Dr. █████: Please provide further description.
James ███████: We was uhh… worshippin' the stick a' butter…
Dr. █████: What compelled you to do this?
James ███████: … It was god…
Dr. █████: I'm sorry?
James ███████: Look I… I know this is gon' sound all loony and shit, but like… the butter was just… god. I dunno man. It jus' was! A buddy a' mine brought me to the IHOP and was all like "taste this", and so I was all like "sure", and so I tasted the butter and it was… it was just like shrooms man… but like… like I couldn't really control my body, like I was just kinda watchin' what I was doin'. But then I jus'… fell asleep or sum' after I heard voices outside an'… next thing I remember, y'all was [REDACTED], the butter was gone, and I was bleedin' out my head…
Dr. █████: Do you follow a faith, Mr. ███████?
James ███████: I was Christian. But now I dunno. There's not a stick a' butter in the Bible anywhere. It doesn't say that god is a stick a' butter. I don't think. Wait, wait, is there a stick a' butter in the Bible? Cause if there is, then maybe I can still be Christian!
Dr. █████: Let's move on-
James ███████: Or I could put a stick a' butter in the Bible…
Dr. █████: Moving on. Please. Do you know where this butter came from?
James ███████: Yeah, yeah I do actually! My friend - the one that, y'know, did the butter thing to me - he was uhhh… one a' them cinnamon-tographer guys for the IHOP commercials… an' he was really good. He kept doin' them commercials for the pancakes where they got the butter meltin' down the cakes real fine, an' the butter still look perfect at the top, y'know?
Dr. █████: Yes. I do know. Please continue.
James ███████: Well he was so good at them commercials that the IHOP men decided to make him manager of that IHOP down on [REDACTED] where you found us… but was kinda goin' off the tracks, y'know? Like, ramblin' on about butter, an' how he did the commercials so good cause the butter jus' didn't melt… an' he closed down the restaurant an' just started livin' there till… he brought me over, I guess…
Dr. █████: Can you describe the activities of your "worship" to me?
James ███████: Yeah. We… prayed to the butter… an' we uh… well we found other people an' made em' taste the butter… an' we made shrines for the butter…
Dr. █████: Can you explai-
James ███████: …an' we did weird sexual things thinkin' about the butter… like, we would [DATA EXPUNGED] each other while we [DATA EXPUNGED]…
Dr. █████: Plea-
James ███████: OH OH, an' we had to get rocket fuel, cause we was supposed to make a rocket for the butter! I remember that! It wants to go to the sun! It wants to go to the sun cause the butter's god an' it-
(Subject's expression suddenly became blank and body became limp for several seconds.)
Dr. █████: Mr. ███████?
(Subject blinked repeatedly and seemed to regain awareness, though kept a blank facial expression.)
James ███████: My apologies. I briefly fell unconscious. What was our topic of discussion?
(Dr. █████ pauses and clears his throat)
Dr. █████: The… rocket?
James ███████: (Silence)
Dr. █████: You were just explaining that the butter compelled you to get… rocket fuel? Correct?
James ███████: I do not recall. I have never heard mention of this device you call a "rocket." I am a simple man. I do not know the intricacies of such obscure concepts.
Dr. █████: I… see. That will be all.
[END LOG]
Closing Statement: Given the nature of the cult that developed around SCP-4858, further resources have been dedicated to identifying the bounds of its ability to brainwash. Due to the sudden shift in behavior during the interview, the subject was terminated as a precautionary measure. Body was relocated to Containment Cell ███-█.
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